Lila Tretikov's father is a mathematician, and her mother was a filmmaker.
11 Facts About Lila Tretikov
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Lila Tretikov's majors were computer science and art, and she researched machine learning.
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In 1999, Tretikov began working as a software engineer in California, where she co-authored several software patents and was a specialist in enterprise software.
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Lila Tretikov started her professional career at Sun Microsystems as an engineer at the Sun-Netscape Alliance, where she worked on the Java server.
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Lila Tretikov has co-authored several patents in intelligent data mapping and dynamic language applications.
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Lila Tretikov was appointed executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2014 in succession to Sue Gardner and took up the post on June 1,2014.
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Lila Tretikov had edited Wikipedia only once before her appointment.
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Lila Tretikov resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation as a result of the WMF's controversial Knowledge Engine project and disagreements with the staff, with her last day being March 31,2016.
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Lila Tretikov was succeeded by Katherine Maher in March 2016.
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On March 16,2016, it was announced that Lila Tretikov had been invited by the World Economic Forum to join its Young Global Leaders community.
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Lila Tretikov is on the boards of OpenEd and Rackspace, and joined the board of directors of Volvo Cars in March 2021.